17 Sep
2007
17 Sep
'07
4:03 a.m.
On 16 Sep 2007 at 20:56, William Donzelli wrote:
Or perhaps earlier, when telegraph operators simply retransmitted the
copy. If "unattented" is the operative answer, then Edison in 1864
with his "repeating telegraph".
If it's not electrical, how about semaphores, smoke signals, flags,
laterns, drums, whistles, riders and runners?
Cheers,
Chuck
Then let's
go a step further. When/where did the first internetworking
gear come onto the market? Not multi-protocol routing, just routing in
general: segmented networks with nodes that moved traffic towards remote
nodes on the behalf of local ones.
Ask Western Union and Kleinschmidt.